Deconstructing entrenched memories of domination and weaving a trame for inclusive and ecological heritage
Born in 1992 in Guri (Venezuela), lives in Paris
Represented by Saatchi Art Gallery
Le 6b. 6 -10 Qaui de Seine. 93200 Saint Denis
STATEMENT
Isabel Judez engages in artistic and social inquiry to shape an inclusive cultural heritage, focusing on the intersections of territorial memory and female emancipation through the metaphor and practice of textiles. Her work—deeply informed by lived experiences under Venezuela’s totalitarian regime—spans sculpture, installation, and performance. Positioned at the crossroads of socially engaged art and geometric abstraction, Júdez fuses traditionally gendered disciplines such as architecture and weaving to question inherited narratives and challenge conventional roles assigned to women.
From 2018 to 2020, she co-founded and actively contributed to Not Common Girls in Panama, a feminist collective that revisited Indigenous weaving circle practices of the Americas through a contemporary lens. In her conceptual framework, Júdez reclaims weaving as both method and metaphor, exploring its material, formal, and symbolic dimensions. Working with a broad range of sustainable materials and generative design software, she creates subtle, abstract compositions that echo the complexity of interwoven systems—proposing memory and social dynamics as a fabric in motion.
Plural Studio + Compagnie is the nonprofit organization that produces the exhibition and performance projects of Isabel Judez. With a strong commitment to building connections with local communities and promoting social justice through monumental, immersive, participatory, and site specific visual and performing arts, Plural serves as a platform for research and experimentation around these themes.
Architecture of Oscar Niemeyer
Photographie : Esther, Gabriel Gomez, Juliana Lujan and Alejandra Pernalete
BIOGRAPHY
Isabel Judez (b. 1992, Guri, Venezuela) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Paris.
A graduate of ESADHaR, where she earned a DNSEP in Art with honors (2024), she develops a practice that interweaves sculpture, performance, installation, and textile media. Through these forms, she explores heritage as something sensory—both tactile and affective—approaching memory as a textile that can be layered, frayed, and rewoven. Her work draws on ecofeminist frameworks and reflects on lived experiences of exile and displacement.
Trained in architecture at UCV in Caracas (with honors) and later at ENSA Paris–Val de Seine, Judez has also worked as a heritage architect. This dual trajectory enables her to articulate a dialogue between spatial memory and contemporary artistic narratives—a thread that runs through both her architectural and artistic practices.
Represented by Saathi Art (USA), her work has been presented in solo exhibitions at the Alliance Française of Panama, Allegro Gallery, and the Gardens of Étretat. She has participated in major art events including Nuit Blanche (National Archives), the Journées du Matrimoine (Corderie Vallois Museum), and Salon ACME No. 13 (CDMX). She has collaborated with public and private institutions across the Americas, including the City of Boulder and the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Panamá.
In 2025, she received the ADAGP/Arte Studio Portrait–Video Grant in recognition of the depth of her artistic engagement. Her work has been featured by DRAC Normandie, Beaux-Arts Magazine, Artension, France 3, and Radio France Internationale.
Both poetic and politically attentive, Isabel Judez’s trajectory unfolds at the intersection of art and architecture, where collective memory and social engagement take form.
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PARTNERS
Studio Manager: Ana Sonderéguer
Atelier: Le 6B
Gallery: Saatchi Art. Los Angeles
Technical design partner: Enzyme Design. Paris, France
CONTACT
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